Liminal Spaces

A Geometric Reverie

:: hypertoons by Andy Thomson ::

Orb Theater

Matryoshka Dolls

You might wanna try reading Synergetics in somewhat the same way you’d watch a hypertoon. The scenarios start and stop within a set of what, over time, become more familiar key frames. A time tunnel becomes familiar, like on Sesame Street (Children’s Television Workshop) wherein the same segments would go buy across episodes. Memories are gone over, revivified.

At the core of Synergetics is a convergence towards an inside-outing with divergence through the looking glass, so to speak. A positive and negative connect through a no-stopping “cosmic zero” which we associate with the Jitterbug Transformation’s contractive extremum, where a tetrahedron intersects with its own dual to make the duo-tet cube. Think of a convergent-divergent bow-tie.

The bow-tie comes up again in the Synergetics Dictionary in connection with teleology.

The Platonics may provide us with a genesis story, a means of deriving the full concentric hierarchy, which includes what the dual pairs beget. The icosahedron + pentagonal dodecahedron beget the rhombic triacontahedron, a star in our Orb Theater show. The cube + octahedron beget the rhombic dodecahedron, the “spheric”, and a star for Kepler as well. The tetrahedron is self-dual. The shapes, the Orb Theater cast of Guys and Dolls, get organized into our volumes table.

Recruiting Presenters

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Philosophy Talk

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Star Player

I you're coming through here as a Martian Math student, then you'll likely already know the pivotal role Orson Welles plays in our curriculum, along with H.G. Wells, and also Ernest Hemingway when it comes to the so-called Spanish Civil War (a rehearsal for WW2).